Posts Tagged ‘mice’

Updates-world map, tomatoes and mice

I’m not sure if this post will have any pictures because I can’t seem to get the *add media* button on the new dashboard to work.  UGH!

Anyway…we have really been enjoying having the big world map up!  We got our push pins and marked all the countries we have sent a postcard too as well as those we have received one from.   Some even got both! B is fascinated with the map and constantly asks what this country or that is called.  Yesterday we played a game where he spelled out names of locations on the map and I had to find them.  Turns out I’m better at geography then I thought, although he did stump me with Svalbard!

I took the tomato plants that we had left after making our Mars greenhouse and planted them in baskets.  The next morning I found that the cats had a fun time digging most of them up!  Bad Kitties! >:^( I think I managed to salvage one or two seedlings and they now live in B’s room where the cats (in theory) can’t get them.  The greenhouse itself is doing great! The plants have not died yet (I know, I’m surprised too!) and are actually growing!  I feel a strange urge to call Ripley’s!

The mice are still cute and we have figured out their personalities. 

Thimble (aka Mindy, aka Mystery) is an escape artist, or at least she aspires to be one.  She spends all her awake time not spent eating getting as high as she can and making mad jumps for the top of the cage.  Of course it has a cover so I can’t figure out what she thinks she’ll do if she gets up there but..  She does not like to be picked up and will try to bolt.

Princess is the biggest and laziest.  *She* also stinks.  All of this makes me think she might actually be a *he*.  If I’m right time will tell! Princess (Prince?) is easy to catch and hold and will sit in your pocket but always cleans excessively when returned to the cage ;)  

Rosie is mellow and always hungry.  She lets you pick her up but isn’t all that happy about it.  She likes to hang out with Princess.  She loves to crawl into the plastic tunnel B buried under the litter for them so if you don’t see her, look there first!

No Dennis update this week :(   We are still stuck on how to make his eyes and need more supplies for his legs. 

Three Blind Mice

OK, they aren’t blind..but they are mice!  B has just acquired some new pets, three female *cow mice* (so named because of the patterns of their fur color I assume). 

There is a long story to go with the purchase of these new friends.  For his birthday B wanted nothing more then a 10 gallon fish tank and fish to go with it.  He got both of those things and took very good care of his pets.  He fed them daily and made sure their filter was working correctly and kept the cats away from them.  Then, disaster struck!

One night as B was feeding the fish he noticed that the top of the table where their tank sat was wet.  Eeek! The tank was leaking!  Since it was nearly 9PM we had not choice but to put his fish in the big tank.  Problem was, a big Oscar lives in the big tank.  Can you see where this is going?  Yup.  Fish bodies were found the next morning.  :(

B took it in stride but has been wanted a new pet for awhile now.  When we were at Pet-co we saw some very cute mice and he decided he REALLY wanted some mice! We’ve had mice before and really enjoyed them so it wasn’t going to take much to convince me! Since we would be able to use the 10 gallon tank (the leak didn’t matter for land animals), W decided to let me…er….B to get a few. 

Today we went to the pet store before dropping B at school and let him pick out three.  The longest part of this process with lifting up all the tails so we could get three girls.  I got male mice before and never again!  They smell and they tend to fight with each other. I think we got the last three girls in the tank.  The sales girl that got them out for us made sure we knew that they could be pregnant.  I have to say I just can’t imagine how small mouse babies would be!  

Here they are in their pet store box:

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And frolicking in their new home:

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                                                This is Princess ^

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                                                    Thimble and Rosie ^

                                                             

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                                                    How does this work?

I think they are just so cute!!   We are leaving them alone for now but I can’t wait until I can pick them up and carry them around in my pocket. 

I’ll let you know if anyone is expecting ;)